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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Trump represents "... the perils of Obama Derangement Syndrome."

...................................................................................................................................................................COMMENTS:* So the GOP wants the owner of Fox news to use his company to take down Trump because they can't find a way to do it> As for Palin she was either drunk or on drugs. I feel sorry for Trump. But then the GOP might have paid her to support him knowing people would turn away from Trump if she is backing him.* In other words, republicans have no one but themselves to blame.* The roots of this disaster grew out of RIchard Nixon. The downward spiral continued to escalate as the GOP policies became more unsound and more religiously based. So now that the GOP]s mantra of "Dare to be Stupid!" has reached a crescendo the people in the shadows who used the flawed means to gain power are seeing their monster morph into a complete berserker. The right wing media darling of the GOP -- Fox news took the early shots as it would not bow to Donald Trump's narcissistic ego. Once the shots were fired and no one attempted to heal the wounds early enough, the thing took on a life of its own. Fox became another media source hence liars. Well, if you are familiar with Fox's reporting that's an easy step to take. And Fox continues to handle the feud with Trump badly. Their "suck up to conservatives" philosophy has tricked them into letting Trump badger and insult them with impunity. What started as a truly twisted clown show of a GOP election cycle has turned into a total freak circus. Donald Trump reality sow of a campaign has gotten him all the ego stroking that he wanted. And a lust for power only grows with food. I don't know how serious Trump's followers are in this age of the "Troll". If they are mostly serious; the GOP will not emerge as the same party that we have seen for decades. Will the racist democrats who left the Dems to become republicans again have to find a new rock to crawl under and cultivate (hardly the right word) their perverse hatred. That seems a fine solution to me. I don't see a way to make the hatred disappear or even morph into something real. It is deep rooted bigotry. It is linked to religion like ISIS. It has abandoned all reason and humanity. Its death could only bring me joy. *note: yes "Dare to be Stupid" was stolen from Weird Al Yankovic.
...................................................................................................................................................................GOP burns to the ground: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and the self-immolation of the Republican establishment

They're against Trump now, but conservative elites have been kindling this wildfire for the better part of a decade

By Eric Boehlert, January 27, 2016

For the record, it wasn’t Sarah Palin’s rambling endorsement of Donald Trump last week that finally drove editors at National Review to launch the magazine’s “Against Trump” push. The conservative media revolt had been in the works weeks prior to Palin’s now-classic oratory display.

Still, there was something fitting about the Right Wing Noise Machine’s simmering civil war over Trump breaking out into open warfare in the wake of Palin’s embarrassing speech; a comeback that had lots of Republican supporters publicly cringing.

What’s inescapable about the mounting GOP hand wringing is that Trump is a right-wing media creation.He’s flourishing on the fertile playing field of bigotry and resentment that National Review, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and a litany of others, have helped seed for many years. There’s little doubt that during President Obama’s two terms they cultivated an anti-intellectual movement that now appears poised to seize control of the Republican Party.

Today, scores of conservative commentators remain utterly baffled as to what’s driving the popularity of the man who, in a matter of weeks, may control the Republican Party nomination. How astonishing is that?

Not only that, but Trump’s critics on the right are waging an all-out civil war with his fiercest media defenders, forcing media players to take sides in the slug fest.

For a movement that has often displayed amazing discipline in terms of targeting its cannon fire on Democrats and liberals, the Right Wing Noise Machine now finds itself stuck in circular firing mode.

None of that disguises the fact that Trump is the monster the Noise Machine created by encouraging bigoted and dishonest forces within the conservative movement; by giving credence to the three year Benghazi cover-up charade, the two year IRS witch hunt, by fueling ugly passions about Obama wanting to take away everyone’s guns, and by arguing he’s uninterested in defending America’s national security.

For years, lots of conservative pundits and talkers cashed large, and in some cases very large, paychecks feeding this ugly beast. Now the beast is beyond their control and they’re going to whine all the way to New Hampshire?

Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, Sarah Palin, a website named “Breitbart,” and certain elements of Fox News (all of whom have both pushed and ridden the Trump bandwagon for selfish commercial purposes), the conservative base is living under several important delusions which has allowed for “Trumpsanity” to foster and grow.

Fact: The only entity that could likely stop Trump at this point would be a concerted effort by Fox News. But Roger Ailes and company are reportedly struggling with how to handle the Republican frontrunner, and have shown no interest in trying to take him down.

The conservative shock and awe of a possible Trump nomination, and the long-term political implications it could unleash, is now real.

But the revolt likely arrives comically late to the game, since a September or October pushback would’ve made more sense. Indeed, the magazine is “telling the Republican Party to pull its ripcord long after we’ve hit the ground,” noted GOP consultant Alex Castellanos.

That delay certainly raises questions about the competency behind the “Against Trump” endeavor. Denouncing Trump, National Review editors insist he “is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.”

But all of those things were telegraphed nearly half-a-year ago when Trump first sprinted to the head of the GOP pack. Why did it take National Review editors and nearly two-dozen writers six months to belatedly acknowledge the obvious and, most importantly, join forces to stop him? (National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote that the project was first launched in late December, but then had to be set aside because of the busy holiday season.)

And who has the conservative nation turned its lonely eyes to in its hour of common sense need? Glenn Beck (Obama’s a “racist“), Dana Loesch, Katie Pavlich, Erick Erickson, and Brent Bozell, who once likened Obama to a “skinny, ghetto crackhead.”

Talk about a rogues gallery of Obama Derangement Syndrome sufferers who have now banded together to preach political clarity. But when the intellectual cupboard is bare, you make due with what’s still left on the shelves and hope the expiration date hasn’t already passed.

The Right Wing Noise Machine was revved up to 11 during the Obama years in an effort to destroy his presidency. In the end, the Noise Machine’s lasting contribution, in the form of a Trump nominee, may be assuring that Obama hands the White House over to another Democrat.
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